• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 7, Issue 3, 332 (2019)
Junqing Zhao1, Lei Li1, Luming Zhao1、2、*, Dingyuan Tang1, Deyuan Shen1, and Lei Su2
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  • 1Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Laser Technology and Emerging Industry, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China
  • 2School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.7.000332 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Junqing Zhao, Lei Li, Luming Zhao, Dingyuan Tang, Deyuan Shen, Lei Su. Tunable and switchable harmonic h-shaped pulse generation in a 3.03  km ultralong mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(3): 332 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We experimentally demonstrated a type of tunable and switchable harmonic h-shaped pulse generation in a thulium-doped fiber (TDF) laser passively mode locked by using an ultralong nonlinear optical loop mirror. The total cavity length was 3.03 km, the longest ever built for a TDF laser to our best knowledge, which resulted in an ultralarge anomalous dispersion over 200 ps2 around the emission wavelength. The produced h-shaped pulse can operate either in a fundamental or in a high-order harmonic mode-locking (HML) state depending on pump power and intra-cavity polarization state (PS). The pulse duration, no matter of the operation state, was tunable with pump power. However, pulse breaking and self-organizing occurred, resulting in high-order HML, when the pump power increased above a threshold. At a fixed pump power, the order of HML was switchable from one to another by manipulating the PS. Switching from the 8th up to the 48th order of HML was achieved with a fixed pump power of 4.15 W. Our results revealed the detailed evolution and switching characteristics of the HML and individual pulse envelope with respect to both the pump power and PS. We have also discussed in detail the mechanisms of both the h-shaped pulse generation and the switching of its HML. This contribution would be helpful for further in-depth study on the underlying dynamics of long-duration particular-envelope pulses with ultralarge anomalous dispersion and ultralong roundtrip time.
    ϕNL=2πn2λAeffP0Leff.(1)

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    ΔϕNL=2πn2LeffλAeffΔP=(12α)2πn2LeffλAeffPin.(2)

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    T=12α(1α)[1+cos(ΔϕNL)].(3)

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    T=12α(1α)[1+cos(ΔϕNL±ΔϕFPC)].(4)

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    dTd(ΔϕNL±ΔϕFPC)=2α(1α)sin(ΔϕNL±ΔϕFPC).(5)

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    P1/2,peak=Ptrailing+12(PleadingPtrailing)=12(Pleading+Ptrailing).(6)

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    Junqing Zhao, Lei Li, Luming Zhao, Dingyuan Tang, Deyuan Shen, Lei Su. Tunable and switchable harmonic h-shaped pulse generation in a 3.03  km ultralong mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(3): 332
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